Angelina Jolie in Yemen to Highlight The 'Catastrophe' of War
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Angelina Julie in Yemen to Highlight The 'Catastrophe' of War
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By Sumaya Bakhsh
image captionRights groups in Kuwait have been campaigning for years for better protection for women We told you he d kill her and he killed my sister!.. Where is the government? Dana Akbar yells in grief after hearing the news.
Farah Hamza Akbar was murdered in Kuwait last week despite earlier pleas from her family to the authorities to protect her from her harasser.
He reportedly abducted her in front of her daughter and niece.
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image captionDana tweeted a picture of her sister, saying We will not be silenced
A statement from the interior ministry reported that a man had seized Farah Akbar from her car and taken her to an unknown location before leaving her outside the hospital where she was pronounced dead. He was arrested shortly afterwards and confessed to stabbing her in the chest, the ministry said.
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How women played a major role in Yemen s Arab Spring
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Yemen was one of the first countries to be caught up in the Arab Spring uprisings which swept the Middle East and North Africa 10 years ago.
There, women were part of the protests against unemployment, economic conditions and corruption that saw longtime ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh toppled from power.
But with Yemen now gripped by war, how much has changed for women since the uprising?
BBC Monitoring s Sumaya Bakhsh spoke to Ishraq al-Maqtari, who was among the first women to take to the streets. The lawyer and women s rights activist recalls how the uprising was an unprecedented opportunity for women to have their voices heard.